The Brothers Come To Egypt / Grovel, Grovel Songtext / Lyric

So back in Canaan the future looked rough

Jacob's family were finding it tough



For the famine has caught us unprepared

We are thin

We are ill

We are getting scared

It's enough to make anyone weep

We are down to our very last sheep



We will starve if we hang around here



But in Egypt there's food going spare



They've got corn

They've got meat

They've got fruit and drinks



And if we have the time

We could see the Sphinx



So they finally decided to go

Off to Egypt to see brother Joe



So they all lay before

Joseph's feet






Mighty prince, give us something to eat



Joseph found it a strain

Not to laugh because

Not a brother among them

Knew who he was



I shall now take them all for a ride

After all they have tried fratricide



I dreamed that in the fields one day,

The corn gave me sign

Your eleven sheaves of corn

All turned and bowed to mine

I dreamed I saw eleven stars,

The sun, the moon, and sky

Bowing down before my star,

And now I realise why



How do I know where you came from?

You could be spies

Telling me that you are hungry -

That could be lies



How do I know who you are?

Why do you think I should help you?

Would you help me? (Yes!)

Why on earth should I believe you?

I've no guarantee



Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop, fall

Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl

Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop, fall

Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl



We are just eleven brothers,

Good men and true

Though we know we count for nothing

When up next to you

Honesty's our middle name

Life is slowly ebbing from us,

Hope's almost gone

It's getting very hard to see us

From sideways on



Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop, fall

Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl



I rather like the way you're talking,

Astute and sincere

Suddenly your tragic story

It gets me right here



This is what we hoped he'd say



All this tugging at my heartstrings

Seems quite justified

I shall give you what you came for

And lots more beside



Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop, fall

Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl



Thank you, thank you, cringe, bow, stoop, fall

Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl



Joseph handed them sackloads of food

And they grovelled with base gratitude



Then, unseen, Joseph out around the back

And planted a cup in young Benjamin's sack



When the brothers were ready to go

Joseph turned to them all

With a terrible stare and said



No No No No No